Daily Clean Energy Briefings — page 4 of 9

A massive 5 GWh thermal energy storage system — among the largest of its kind — has gone live at a South Dakota biofuels facility, signaling that long-duration storage technology is moving from pilot…

Nearly $1 billion in new financing for Texas solar-plus-storage projects and a 365-MW Wyoming facility for Meta underscore how data center demand continues to turbocharge utility-scale renewable…

The proposed Dominion Energy-NextEra Energy merger — which would create the nation's largest regulated utility at 110 gigawatts — is now drawing scrutiny over what it means for Virginia ratepayers…

House Democrats are demanding a classified briefing on the Trump administration's sweeping blockade of roughly 200 wind energy projects on national security grounds, escalating a political…

NextEra Energy is reportedly near a deal to acquire rival utility Dominion Energy, a blockbuster consolidation that would reshape the American power sector and unite the nation's largest renewable…

Texas solar generation is now officially on track to surpass coal in 2026 — projected at 78,000 GWh versus coal's 60,000 GWh — marking a historic inflection point in America's largest…

Texas continues to cement its dominance as the epicenter of America's solar boom, with nearly $1 billion in new project financing, a landmark joint venture for a 670 MW facility, and fresh…

Meta signed 850MW of solar and storage power purchase agreements across three states, the latest signal that Big Tech's insatiable appetite for data center power is rapidly reshaping the American…

Ford Energy's entry into utility-scale battery storage with a $2 billion investment plan collides with a wave of sodium-ion breakthroughs and BESS deployments across the Sun Belt, signaling that the…

The Trump administration's EPA moved to let power plants, data centers, and factories break ground before securing air-emission permits — a sweeping regulatory rollback that could accelerate fossil…

The Pentagon's freeze on wind energy permitting has now ballooned to more than 250 stalled projects representing 30 GW of potential capacity, dramatically expanding the scope of the Trump…

A U.S. investor fund is threatening to dump its TotalEnergies stake over the French oil major's retreat from offshore wind, in what may be the most forceful signal yet that the Trump administration's…

The Trump administration is blocking 228 wind projects across the United States on national security grounds, a sweeping action that the American Clean Power Association warns could freeze the…

PJM Interconnection is reviewing more than 800 new power project proposals — its first major queue opening in four years — as data center demand reshapes the nation's largest grid, while a new…

California's battery storage fleet now rivals the output of 12 nuclear power plants, a milestone that lands just as the state subpoenas developers of a 2GW offshore wind project over an alleged deal…

The Trump administration has frozen 165 onshore wind projects across the country, citing national security concerns in a sweeping action that represents the most significant federal intervention…

The national EV charging network keeps expanding despite Trump administration funding freezes, with states doubling their spending to $94 million in 2025 — a striking example of how clean energy…

Salt River Project and NextEra Energy Resources have signed a mammoth 4 GW power purchase agreement — 3,000 MW of solar and 1,000 MW of battery storage across Arizona — in what ranks among the…

California has formally exercised state-level authority to override a decade of local opposition and approve the 300 MW Soda Mountain solar-plus-storage project — a precedent-setting move that could…

Clean energy dominated U.S. grid additions in 2025 at a staggering 91% of new capacity — 50 GW worth over $150 billion — even as the Trump administration's rollback of federal tax credits now faces…

The Trump administration has killed two more offshore wind projects — Bluepoint Wind and Golden State Wind — bringing the federal campaign against the sector to a new crescendo, even as solar and…

The Trump Administration is paying offshore wind developers to surrender their federal leases and redirect investment toward fossil fuels, a dramatic escalation that now threatens to unwind years of…

The Commerce Department slapped preliminary anti-dumping duties as high as 234% on solar imports from India, Indonesia, and Laos — a move that threatens to choke the domestic solar supply chain just…

Republican House members are breaking ranks to propose preserving federal clean energy tax incentives — a dramatic policy reversal that could reshape the investment landscape for solar, wind, and…

TotalEnergies has abandoned two U.S. wind farm projects in a billion-dollar retreat that raises pointed national security questions, even as federal permitting uncertainty continues to cloud the…

A federal court has formally blocked the Department of the Interior's memo that had been slowing solar and wind permitting on federal lands, delivering the renewable energy industry its most…

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration's de facto moratorium on solar permitting on public lands, issuing a preliminary injunction that could unlock an estimated 57 GW of stalled clean…

A federal judge blocked Trump administration actions that had been stalling wind and solar projects across the country, delivering a significant legal setback to the White House's fossil fuel agenda…

FERC is preparing to assert unprecedented authority over data center grid connections, a regulatory shift that could reshape how and where hundreds of gigawatts of new clean energy get built — even…

Newly surfaced documents undermine the Trump administration's public claims about an offshore wind deal, intensifying scrutiny of federal energy policy just days after a court ordered GE Vernova to…